15/12/2016

Preparing the creative industry for the internet of the future.

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New technologies offer artists unprecedented opportunities for collaboration. However, the creative sector does not always know how to make the most of these technologies. In the SPECIFI project, several solutions were developed for this purpose:
  • Smart platforms enable various innovative forms of creative performances to be realised (such as augmented reality).
  • Through a fast network connecting cities (a so-called Creative Ring), artists from different European cities can collaborate seamlessly and even perform together.
  • By making agreements at a European level on intellectual property, barriers to collaboration and successful creative business models are removed.
The Creative Ring is now a reality, formed by the integration of SPECIFI with the European FI-WARE project. In the SPECIFI project, the cities of Trento (Northern Italy), Barcelona (Spain), and Kortrijk (Belgium) participated as pilot sites for the new applications. Alcatel-Lucent, i2cat, and Mediahaven were involved as technology partners. Together with the Belgian research institute iMinds (now: imec), Dialogic was responsible for developing business models.